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Game theory to enhance stock management of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 outbreak

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many healthcare facilities have suffered from shortages in medical resources, particularly in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). In this paper, we propose a game-theoretic approach to schedule PPE orders among healthcare facilities. In this PPE game, ea...

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Autores principales: Abedrabboh, Khaled, Pilz, Matthias, Al-Fagih, Zaid, Al-Fagih, Othman S., Nebel, Jean-Christophe, Al-Fagih, Luluwah
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7850473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33524057
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246110
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author Abedrabboh, Khaled
Pilz, Matthias
Al-Fagih, Zaid
Al-Fagih, Othman S.
Nebel, Jean-Christophe
Al-Fagih, Luluwah
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Pilz, Matthias
Al-Fagih, Zaid
Al-Fagih, Othman S.
Nebel, Jean-Christophe
Al-Fagih, Luluwah
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description Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many healthcare facilities have suffered from shortages in medical resources, particularly in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). In this paper, we propose a game-theoretic approach to schedule PPE orders among healthcare facilities. In this PPE game, each independent healthcare facility optimises its own storage utilisation in order to keep its PPE cost at a minimum. Such a model can reduce peak demand considerably when applied to a variable PPE consumption profile. Experiments conducted for NHS England regions using actual data confirm that the challenge of securing PPE supply during disasters such as COVID-19 can be eased if proper stock management procedures are adopted. These procedures can include early stockpiling, increasing storage capacities and implementing measures that can prolong the time period between successive infection waves, such as social distancing measures. Simulation results suggest that the provision of PPE dedicated storage space can be a viable solution to avoid straining PPE supply chains in case a second wave of COVID-19 infections occurs.
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spelling pubmed-78504732021-02-09 Game theory to enhance stock management of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 outbreak Abedrabboh, Khaled Pilz, Matthias Al-Fagih, Zaid Al-Fagih, Othman S. Nebel, Jean-Christophe Al-Fagih, Luluwah PLoS One Research Article Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many healthcare facilities have suffered from shortages in medical resources, particularly in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). In this paper, we propose a game-theoretic approach to schedule PPE orders among healthcare facilities. In this PPE game, each independent healthcare facility optimises its own storage utilisation in order to keep its PPE cost at a minimum. Such a model can reduce peak demand considerably when applied to a variable PPE consumption profile. Experiments conducted for NHS England regions using actual data confirm that the challenge of securing PPE supply during disasters such as COVID-19 can be eased if proper stock management procedures are adopted. These procedures can include early stockpiling, increasing storage capacities and implementing measures that can prolong the time period between successive infection waves, such as social distancing measures. Simulation results suggest that the provision of PPE dedicated storage space can be a viable solution to avoid straining PPE supply chains in case a second wave of COVID-19 infections occurs. Public Library of Science 2021-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7850473/ /pubmed/33524057 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246110 Text en © 2021 Abedrabboh et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Game theory to enhance stock management of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 outbreak
title Game theory to enhance stock management of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 outbreak
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title_short Game theory to enhance stock management of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 outbreak
title_sort game theory to enhance stock management of personal protective equipment (ppe) during the covid-19 outbreak
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7850473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33524057
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246110
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